From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage
Date: 7 May 2003 15:55:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9c2sh$ojj$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b9bupr$jkm$2@tangens.hometree.net
Followup to: <b9bupr$jkm$2@tangens.hometree.net>
By author: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
>
> >I dunno what the purpose of that would be exactly, I guess to cater to
> >some hardware odditites?
>
> Wild guess: You can use larger transfer sizes with the 48 bit
> interface, even when adressing the lower 28 bit space?
>
> This might be a win for applications that stream large contigous
> blocks from/to a HD (Video, Audio...)
>
Right, Jens basically does something like:
use_48_bits := (address+length > 2^28) || (length >= 2^16)
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 8:49 [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 16:46 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 17:33 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 17:50 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 19:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-07 20:19 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 11:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 12:01 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-12 21:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-05-13 6:44 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 11:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 11:59 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 12:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 12:26 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 12:36 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 13:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 13:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 13:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 13:37 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:47 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 15:49 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 16:16 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-08 16:34 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 16:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-09 7:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-09 7:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-09 8:28 ` [PATCH][RFC] Sanitize hwif/drive addressing (was Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage) Jens Axboe
2003-05-09 11:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-09 12:03 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 21:45 ` [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-07 22:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 22:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-05-07 18:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 19:30 ` Jens Axboe
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